[guide.chat] Fact of the day
- From: "Carol O'Connor" <missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "guide Chat List" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:59:17 +0100
Fact of the Day: arteries
"Arteries are large, thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the
heart. Most arteries contain bright red, oxygen-rich blood, but pulmonary
arteries, which run from the heart to the lungs, carry dark reddish-blue blood,
which is low in oxygen and needs to be replenished. Arteries divide further to
form capillaries. Capillaries are microscopic blood vessels with walls only one
cell thick. Veins work with arteries and their job is to carry blood toward the
heart. At any moment, three-fourths of your blood is in veins, one-fifth in
arteries, and one-twentieth in capillaries."
Events.
969 - The Byzantines siege ended 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch.
1636 - The college that later was known as Harvard University was founded by an
act of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent on the cotton gin.
1831 - English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated the first
dynamo.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France designed by sculptor Frederic
Bartholdi, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. It
was originally named Liberty Enlightening the World.
1914 - George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak Company, announced the introduction of
a color photographic process.
1919 - Congress passed the Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act, over
President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the government and fascism was
instituted.
1940 - Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1949 - Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson was sworn in as the U. S. Ambassador to
Denmark, becoming the first female American ambassador.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis effectively ended as Soviet Union leader Nikita
Khrushchev announced his government's intent to dismantle and remove all
offensive Soviet weapons from Cuba.
1965 - Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1965 - The Gateway Arch was completed as part of the Jefferson National
Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri.
1970 - Senator James William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, accused the Nixon administration of conducting an illegal
war in Laos without congressional knowledge or approval.
1982 - Felipe González became Spain's first Socialist prime minister.
1990 - Non-Communist parties triumphed in elections in Georgia, USSR.
2002 - American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house
in Amman, Jordan.
Births.
1467 - Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author and scholar.
1846 - Georges August Escoffier, French culinary artist and author.
1875 - Gilbert Grosvenor, American geographer, credited with transforming
"National Geographic" into a renowned magazine.
1903 - Evelyn Waugh, English novelist.
1907 - Edith Head, American costume designer.
1914 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher and inventor of polio vaccine.
1933 - Suzy Parker, American model and actress.
1955 - William Gates, American computing entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of
Microsoft Corporation.
Deaths
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher.
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American veteran television actor and comedian.
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